Atmel launched maXTouch, a fully integrated capacitive touchscreen technology.
The new maXTouch technology is based on a touch optimised version of Atmel’s XMEGA AVR microcontroller CPU, coupled with a fully-integrated analog sensing front-end to capture the charge image from the touchscreen sensor.
Vegard Wollan, managing director and general manager of Atmel’s Microcontroller Business unit, said: Many of our mobile handset customers have commented that maXTouch clearly provides better performance than any touchscreen phone in the market today and is superior compared to products and technologies currently being offered by other suppliers. In addition, it provides the lowest power consumption and a solution with a significantly smaller form factor than the existing solutions.
Through Atmel’s maXTouch algorithms, an unlimited number of touch points can be read and utilised. Its ear/cheek/grip suppression algorithms can detect and reject unintended touches.
The maXTouch technology reportedly provides multiple touch finger adjacency for screen sizes surpassing 10. It also reports ‘size of the touch’ and ‘width of line’.
